I’m also wondering what the House Edge is for this version as opposed to normal blackjack played in AC.Īccording to the famed “Illustrious 18” table in Don Schlesinger’s “ Blackjack Attack” insurance is the single most valuable hand to the counter, in terms of value gained by making count dependent strategy changes.

I was wondering if you’d heard of this variation and how it changes the basic strategy for blackjack. For example, with the dealer showing an 8, you would normally hit a 16, but in this game, it seemed as if we were better off standing on 16 and hoping that the dealer busted at least once out of the 3, thus losing 2 out of 3 rather than 3 out of 3 for busting ourselves. It seemed to place a higher priority on staying in the game (not hitting on various soft hands) so as not to lose 3 bets at once by going over. It seemed to us that this changed the strategies for blackjack somewhat.

Essentially, you are playing the same hand 2-3x vs the same dealer 'face-up card'. The dealer resolves the first bet normally, then keeps the original face-up card and starts all over again, resolving the 2nd bet, and then the 3rd. You hit/stand/double/split as in normal AC blackjack. You are dealt your hand and the dealer is dealt one card (face up). Some friends and I were in AC last weekend at the Claridge, where we spent the evening playing something called 'Multiple Action Blackjack.' If you do not know about it, basically, you can bet either 2 or 3 times. Update: Since this writing the Westward Ho was torn down and the Slots-a-Fun has slots only. Only over the very long haul does a net profit become likely. About card counting, absolutely not, even the best of card counters will lose often. Next door, at the Westward Ho, double after a split is allowed but the dealer hits a soft 17 for a house edge of 0.04%. The best single-deck game is at the Slots-a-Fun (next to Circus Circus) where the dealer stands on soft 17 for a player edge of 0.01%.

With these rules, the house edge is 0.18%. The typical Las Vegas single-deck game does not allow doubling after a split and the dealer hits a soft 17. I have already enhanced the house edge table in the blackjack section to include a wider variation in rules. However, in real life, when single deck is offered the other rules invariably become more stingy. At the time you wrote this I indicated the house edge according to a fixed set of rules that varied only by the number of decks.

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